Archive for May, 2017

Farmers collect tomatoes at a farm in the Syrian coastal city of Tartus on July 4, 2016. (Photo by AFP) A Russian company has imported the first lot of tomatoes from Syria as Moscow keeps its restrictions on importing some food items from Turkey. Aslan Panesh, the chief executive of […]

Students in the German city of Nuremberg have clashed with police to bloc the deportation of an Afghan refugee. Clashes erupted on Wednesday between students and police at the vocational school at Berliner Platz, where officials were trying to evacuate a 20-year-old Afghan asylum seeker from the camp. The Afghan student […]

The headquarters of the EU’s anti-graft watchdog in Brussels (file photo) The EU’s anti-graft watchdog said Wednesday it has been “flooded” with alleged fraud cases in the European Parliament and other bodies that have dragged in France’s far-right National Front. OLAF said cases in the European Parliament last year involved […]

A police officer raises his baton as he attempts to disperse protesters during a demonstration against the results of the first round of the French presidential election in Bordeaux on April 27, 2017. (Photos by AFP) Amnesty International says France has been using an extended state of emergency in Paris […]

Afghan security forces and residents stand near the crater left by a truck bomb attack in Kabul on May 31, 2017. (Photos by AFP) Press TV’s cameraman has gone missing in Afghanistan after a massive bomb blast in Kabul claimed the lives of at least 90 people and injured hundreds of […]

Screen grab from an ad published May 31, 2017 by the National Republican Congressional Committee against Georgia Democratic House candidate Jon Ossoff Republicans are targeting Georgia Democratic House candidate Jon Ossoff over his support for Iran nuclear deal. The National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC) released a second ad against Ossoff […]

A Turkish Air Force AS-532AL Cougar helicopter takes off from Incirlik airbase in the southern city of Adana on July 27, 2015. (Photo by Reuters) Thirteen Turkish troops have died in a helicopter crash in the country’s southeastern Sirnak province. The Cougar military chopper went down on Wednesday after hitting an electrical […]

(From L-R) Rabbi Yisrael Meir Lau, First Lady Melania Trump, US President Donald Trump and Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attend a wreath laying ceremony during a visit to the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial museum on May 23, 2017, in Jerusalem al-Quds. US President Donald Trump is stepping back from […]

Musk’s move, announced on Twitter, could deepen the rift between the tech world and the Trump administration, which have been at odds over immigration and other issues. DAVID MCNEW / AFP Tesla founder and technology luminary Elon Musk said Wednesday he would quit President Donald Trump’s business advisory councils if […]

He will succeed Fiji’s former ambassador to the United Nations, Peter Thomson, in September and chair the assembly’s 72nd session that month. The post lasts a year. The United Nations General Assembly on Wednesday picked Slovak Foreign Minister Miroslav Lajcak to be its next president. He will succeed Fiji’s former […]

Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova (Photos by AFP) US President Donald Trump’s claim that Iran supports terrorism will not lead anywhere, says Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova, citing Moscow’s own anti-terror work with Tehran. Trump made the allegation during his recent visit to Saudi Arabia, where he accused […]

The photo shows a view of the Russian Foreign Ministry. In a tit-for-tat move after the expulsion of Russian diplomats from Estonia, Moscow has retaliated by ordering two Estonian diplomats to leave Russia. Russia’s Foreign Ministry said on Wednesday that Estonia’s consul general in St. Petersburg Janus Kirikmae and Kantin Kanarik, a […]

A video grab made from handout footage taken in Moscow on April 7, 2017 and released by the Russian Foreign Ministry shows foreign ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova making a statement on a US strike on a government air base in Syria. (via AFP) Russia says airstrikes conducted by the US-led […]

US President Donald Trump. US President Donald Trump is expected to pull his country out of global pact to fight climate change known as the Paris Climate Agreement, a move that would have profound effects on the planet and deepen a rift with American allies. According to Axios news outlet, […]

Saudi Arabia has moved the country’s youngest political prisoner to a notorious jail in the eastern city of Dammam despite objections by human rights groups and the United Nations. The European Saudi Organization for Human Rights (ESOHR) said in a Tuesday report that 16-year-old Murtaja al-Qurayris had been moved to the Dammam Mabahith […]